Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: Wacom tablet not working with 2.6.27-rc: kernel or X.org driver fault? | Date | Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:42:11 -0700 | From | "Ping Cheng" <> |
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The bug with ubuntu is related to kernel 2.6.26 and the user's newer tablet. They have to upgrade wacom.ko from linuxwacom themselves or wait for ubuntu to do the job for them. That has nothing to do with kernel.org.
For the patch, it is related kernel 2.6.27. We, linuxwacom, doesn't support 2.6.27 yet (it is on our to-do list). We are waiting for a final testing among users before submitting a patch to kernel.org for the newly added tablets: Bamboo1, DTU, and USB Tablet PCs. We'll probably submit the patch within 2 weeks. But the patch will most likely go to 2.6.28.
Feel free to email me if anything above confuses you.
Ping
-----Original Message----- From: dcg [mailto:diegocg@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 2:12 PM To: Ping Cheng; dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Wacom tablet not working with 2.6.27-rc: kernel or X.org driver fault?
Hi, I just updated to Ubuntu Intrepid testing sources, which include X.org 7.4, and as kernel I'm using the latest Linus' tree. And my wacom tablet has stopped working properly, just like described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wacom-tools/+bug/260675
As this bug appeared when I updated X.org I'd blame the X driver for this bug (it's not a kernel regression), but there's people pointing to a kernel patch [1] that updates the kernel driver to the latest version to get this problem fixed, so I ask: Is there some bug in the kernel wacom module that can be sent as a simple fix to -stable (2.6.27 will be released really soon), or have the linuxwacom people decided to change the compatibility between the X <-> kernel wacom interfaces without pushing the changes to one side, and then we must wait to 2.6.28 because it's an "improvement"?
It'd be interesting to get this issue fixed ASAP, as having stable releases of X.org and Linux which can't work together is not very nice, specially for the ones of us that use a tablet as mouse.
[1]: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17948041/wacom-1.49.patch
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